Buried guilt and barbacoa
05/2026 — 55″ x 48″
Acrylic on used fence pickets
$2400
Some things stay buried. That doesn’t mean they’re gone.
Buried Guilt and Barbacoa was one of four major works created for my collaborative exhibition with Anthony the Poet in San Antonio. The idea was Anthony’s contribution to our ongoing attempt to pair traditional and celebratory foods with the various anxieties of being alive.
Barbacoa gave us an unusually convenient metaphor. Something gets buried, left underground to smolder for hours, and eventually comes back to the surface.
Freud and the priest have their own theories about what else we’ve got cooking down there.